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PageRank (PR) is a numeric value that represents how much importance that a website has in the Internet. PageRank is an invention of Google, which is used as a measure to determine the positioning of your website or blog.
The main method for calculating the PageRank of a blog is done by taking into account the number of links you have for your website. Also, the quality of blogs linking to them is taken into account. Depending on these factors, the PageRank value will be greater or lesser. Therefore, if you exchange links with blogs or websites with a PageRank higher than yours, the PageRank of your blog will increase.
It is also important to know that Google does not take into account all the links to calculate PageRank. For example, Google filters out and discards the link directories dedicated exclusively to placing links (called 'link farms').
As mentioned earlier, the PageRank is one of the most important aspects of good SEO positioning. It is therefore very important to achieve a good PageRank value.
Typically, a website with a PR=0 is a penalized site. At the other extreme, we find websites like Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Adobe and Macromedia with a PageRank=10.
PageRank is updated approximately every 3 months, which means that you will have 4 updates per year. For example, if you created a blog on December 31, 4 updates will be on:
- 1st Page Rank update in late March or early April.
- 2nd update of Page Rank in late June or early July.
- 3rd update of Page Rank in late September or early October.
- 4th Page Rank update should be at the end of December.
The algorithm of PageRank was patented in the United States on January 8th 1998 by Larry Page. And no, its just a coincidence his last name and the algorithms first name are the same. Anyways, if you got more questions that's the man you need to find.
